Serving York is a key part of life at the Belfrey, with volunteering as one of the main ways the church engages in social transformation, encouraging people to take part in small one-off projects while sharing Jesus’ love across the city.
Each year is shaped around seasonal focuses including:
Spring: Children and Families
Summer: Going into the local communities in York,
Autumn: Food poverty and Harvest
Winter: Hampers for those in need in York,
This creates accessible opportunities for everyone to get involved beyond the church therefore encouraging church/community engagement. Building on the Love Your Neighbour campaign, this work continues to grow as a central part of the Belfrey’s vision to support those facing hardship and disadvantage across York. If you would like to get involved or support this work, you can do so via the Giving button.
SERVING YORK by GIVING
A thank-you to The Belfrey from Besom
Volunteering is one of the primary ways we encourage the Belfrey congregations to engage with small one-off social transformation projects as well as praying for Jesus’ love to be spread throughout York. We have a different focus each quarter on four main areas so everyone can join in volunteering outside the church in our community.
We also use this as a way to signpost to longer term volunteering with our Social Transformation projects and other York charities.
In 2026, our focus each season will be as follows:
In previous years, we’ve focussed on : homelessness, asylum seekers, families, foodbank, hampers to CAP clients, and other families in need through Besom.
Projects we are involved with
York has some incredible charities working to serve our community, and we love partnering with and growing relationships with these organisations. Some of them were were set up or are now run by members of our church.
To find out more about how to get involved and support each of the services, whether financially, with time and skills, or through prayer, then click on their logo below:
We first partnered with the national Love Your Neighbour campaign in 2021, but it has grown now to be a central part of our aim to support those in York working to relieve hardship and disadvantage within and importantly beyond our church family throughout our city.